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New book says Trump allies pushed DoD to overturn election
The Hill ^ | 11/16/2021 | Jordan Williams

Posted on 11/16/2021 8:56:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A newly released book claims that allies of former President Trump tried to push a top Defense Department official into overturning the 2020 election.

According to the book "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show,” which was published Tuesday, former national security advisor Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell both made calls to Ezra Cohen, who was then acting as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, while Cohen was traveling in the Middle East, ABC News reported.

Flynn and Powell were among Trump’s most vocal allies as the former president sought to overturn the 2020 election based on unproven claims of voter fraud.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 202012; 20201220; allies; bertelsman; bookdeals; election; ezracohen; fieldoffight; flynn; higgins; iran; jonathankarl; karl; michaelflynn; mikeflynn; overturn; sidneypowell; trump
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Is everybody writing a book these days?
1 posted on 11/16/2021 8:56:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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Let's assume it's true. Neither Flynn nor Powell worked for the President. They are private citizens with no position in the government. So they had opinions.

How scandalous!

2 posted on 11/16/2021 8:58:45 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So what is his point?


3 posted on 11/16/2021 8:59:02 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Overturn, yeah. I’m sure most of America wishes they had. Just take a look around


4 posted on 11/16/2021 8:59:04 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The book’s publisher is owned by Bertelsmann.

Nuff said.


5 posted on 11/16/2021 9:02:47 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: McCarthysGhost

The Democrats overturned the election with voter/ballot fraud.


6 posted on 11/16/2021 9:03:43 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: pepsi_junkie

The democrats had already overturned the honest election so what’s the problem with Trump pushing to overturn the overturn?


7 posted on 11/16/2021 9:06:39 AM PST by Iron Munro ( In Biden’s America science is just leftist propaganda spread by government,media and useful idiots )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would be mad if he didn’t.


8 posted on 11/16/2021 9:07:57 AM PST by McGruff
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is the same book by Jonathan Karl they’ve been pulling stories out of for two weeks. Milking it. Today’s the official release date so now more people get a crack at it.


9 posted on 11/16/2021 9:09:18 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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RE: Is everybody writing a book these days?

Nope. Not a peep about our dynamic, energetic President and his highly focused intellect. Probably 70 or so against Trump in the past 4 years.

There must be servants who see Joe drooling over his Cream of Rice while a red faced angry Jill berates him and slaps the back of his head for going off the teleprompter script. “You’re ruining my future political career, you idiot.”

The “I’ll be in trouble” handlers must be apparent to servants and lowly aides.

So, get going, whistleblowers against Joe and Kammie. don’t you want to have aqll that attention on TV and on book tours?
Get writing.


10 posted on 11/16/2021 9:10:07 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Who wrote the steaming pile? Free Republic’s main publication with another new book says “Trump sucks” piece.


11 posted on 11/16/2021 9:10:56 AM PST by Luke21
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To: McCarthysGhost

If your aspirations are communist, it was an attempt to
“Overturn” the predetermined election.

If you are an American, it was a request to stop the illegal steal.

They know they lost.

We know they lost.

That alone means the game is all but over.

They have us running in lockstep, six years behind Venezuela, but the
difference is that we see that, and enough of us already know what they
did, and how they did it.

It will not stand, for it must not stand.


12 posted on 11/16/2021 9:11:27 AM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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13 posted on 11/16/2021 9:12:55 AM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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To: Pollard

Unwanted slander books....

If the remainders go for under the Dollar Store price (2 for $1?) maybe they can have their pages mined for outhouse toilet paper. And bird cage liner for droppings. Or to warm a family around the fireplace and keep the fire going all night.

See? I’m a supporter of recycling to save the planet after all.


14 posted on 11/16/2021 9:13:05 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Exactly. Neither one worked for Trump and what they said in a phone call is on them.

I really wonder about Flynn in general. I just saw him on tv and he seemed perfectly reasonable. But he often has quotes attributed to him which are out of control. Not just this quote.

The idea that some defense under secretary was going to seize ballots doesn’t make any sense.


15 posted on 11/16/2021 9:13:49 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s nothing.

Another new book said Trump pushed the aliens living in Area 51 to help overturn the election.

Of course I believe both books. I mean….they’re books, right?


16 posted on 11/16/2021 9:15:40 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

soon there will be as many books about Trump as there are about Shakspeare. Every janitor in the White House and Trump Tower is busy writing books.


17 posted on 11/16/2021 9:16:15 AM PST by euram
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A newly released book claims that allies of former President Trump tried to push a top Defense Department official into overturning the 2020 election-theft.
18 posted on 11/16/2021 9:19:52 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not only are the Left Sustaining the Steal they are engaged in conspiracy theories about those who challenged the steal.


19 posted on 11/16/2021 9:24:53 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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“A newly released book claims that allies of former President Trump tried to push a top Defense Department official into overturning the 2020 election.”

Very close to sedition:

§2384. Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.


20 posted on 11/16/2021 9:33:09 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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